Pig Miller wrote:don't know if i can take this much longer. may tune out until christmas.

i hear you. i really didn't expect it to get this bad, even with the injuries. utah's a freaking terrible road team, and they just walked all over the lakers, pretty much from the opening tip. if you can't beat utah at home after you just dropped two of three on the road, you've either got no head or got no heart. seems to be the latter with this team, and that's hard to watch.

someone can call me if and when they decide to match their opponents' enthusiasm.

We suck, it's baffling and saddening. I don't even know if Nash can fix this, because it's defense not offense. Maybe Phil Jackson is not a great defensive coach, yes he had teams with us that were terrible there, but he at least knows to slow a game down as a defensive strategy, rather than try and outshoot teams.

the effort just wasn't there from the start and was there for probably a total of 4 minutes the whole game. Nash should help turnovers IMO. the offense isn't gunna be much better than 53% from 3 so Nash will help limit turnovers. BUT I really think this team needs to play with some fire and desire and play D. We get points but immediately give up points.

A professional athlete paid millions NEEDS to come out with energy and hustle for 48 mins. no excuse. Do your job. in the real world you get fired if you don't

Im so pissed off right now we're doing well on offense, bench is been amazing, 3 point shooting rock solid, offense overall most of the key players have been productive...the defense is non extent. Kobe is not playing D, Howard is not rebounding well (we let Jazz rebound 42 of their damn misses). Ron didn't bring any intensity. Its not like they're making the wrong rotations and there is miscommunication, there is NO communication, theres no cohesiveness on that end of the floor.

I still have hope in this team if you can score as much as we do we'll be fine but they're pissing me off that they're not buckling down and getting the stops when they needed to. A rebound when they need to.